Drupal is a Content Management System. Drupal is also deeply, deeply weird. While systems like Magento often confuse people, the MVC structure that most people are used to is still there, it's just more abstract. Web MVC systems are systems designed to, first and

One trap a lot of people (myself included) fall into with Magento is forgetting that sometimes the best solution is just basic, standard PHP OOP. There was a Stack Overflow question where this came up in the comments, and I figured I'd wrangle a

During last week's Imagine conference, Magento released (among other things) the 1.5.0.0 version of their Community Edition offering. About a day after its release a bug that compromised a security layer was found. Twelve hours later Magento released 1.5.0

If you missed the Unconference at Magento Imagine, I've posted my slides, as well as recorded a full screencast of the demo portion of my presentation on the Widgets feature. It's a two parter, available on YouTube, or embedded below.